Re: [Gnuplot-info] Help, my gnuplot script is too slow

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

she...@be... wrote:
> OK so the use of "index" is not like the use of fseek in C. So how can I
> advance to a particular data set in a file of multiple data sets without
> having to parse the entire file each time? That is, how can I do something
> like a fseek?

You can't, short of not having such a big entire file in the first place.

Text files absolutely _have_ to be parsed to find any particular 
position whose definition depends on the context of the file itself 
(e.g. a particular line number, the n-th occurence of a double blank 
line, ...).